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Re: [PATCH] "sleep 1" sleeps too little on cygwin

From
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 19, 2006, 22:12 UTC
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<20060119221227.GB3601@steel.home>
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<20060119182822.GA32022@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
Christopher Faylor, Thu, Jan 19, 2006 19:28:22 +0100:
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> >> By the way, if you have an access to git on cygwin with FAT,
> >> could you test your patch ($SECONDS) and then i-num patch (the
> >> machine with cygwin I can borrow has only NTFS) please?
> >
> >Works if sleep is for 2 secs (I completely forgot about that stupid
> >FAT granularity!)
> >st_ino is always the same (it is a hash of pathname).
> >Christopher, how is that supposed to work with hardlinks? (NTFS has
> >hardlinks, BTW)
> 
> There is OS support hardlinks work on NTFS/NT but not on FAT*
> "filesystems" or Windows 9x variants.  Hardlink support on Cygwin
> mirrors this.
>

No, I rephrase the question: how does the method of calculating .st_ino from pathname handles hardlinked files on NTFS? By briefly looking at the code it does not seem to be possible.

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  2. Junio C HamanoJan 18, 2006
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  4. Junio C HamanoJan 18, 2006
  5. Christopher FaylorJan 19, 2006
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  7. Johannes SchindelinJan 18, 2006
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  10. Junio C HamanoJan 19, 2006
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